Weekly News Round-Up: The Stone Roses, Metronomy and more

Missed any of the week’s top news stories? Live4ever has it covered with our Weekly News Round-Up, looking back at ten of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days in British music.

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The Stone Roses have shared their new single ‘All For One‘.

One of the most hotly anticipated tracks in recent memory got its premiere just before 8pm (May 8th) on BBC Radio 1, the first taste of recording sessions which Ian Brown, John Squire, Mani and Reni have been undertaking at Paul Epworth’s Church Studios in north London.

PJ Harvey will play shows in the US for the first time since her ‘Let England Shake‘ campaign back in 2011 this summer.

With that LP’s follow-up ‘The Hope Six Demolition Project‘ now out Harvey will visit the States briefly in August for dates at Terminal 5 in New York (16th) and Los Angeles’ Shrine Expo Hall (18th).

The Cure will now visit Adelaide and Perth during their stay in Australasia this July.

With dates at the Auckland Vector Arena on July 21st, the Sydney Qodus Bank Arena on the 25th and the Melbourne Rod Laver Arena on the 28th already booked, shows at the Entertainment Centres in the aforementioned cities have been confirmed for on July 29th and 31st respectively.

The Mercury Prize will be thrown open to a public vote for the first time when it returns later this year.

“2016 marks the start of a new era of innovation for the Mercury Prize, as we begin a dynamic new partnership with Hyundai,” says managing director Dan Ford.

Jake Bugg will have another set of UK and Ireland tour dates in the autumn after the release of third album ‘On My One‘.

In the weeks after festival appearances at Splendour In The Grass, Sziget and more, Bugg is planning more headline shows in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, London and Dublin by November 5th.

Metronomy (Photo: Garret Torres for Live4ever)

Metronomy‘s new album ‘Summer 08’ has been confirmed for release on July 1st.

Frontman Joe Mount presented Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac with the lead single ‘Old Skool‘, featuring Mix Master Mike, on May 11th. It’s the first Metronomy album since 2014’s ‘Love Letters’.

Milburn will go beyond their recent four shows at the O2 Academy in Sheffield with a full tour of the UK in September.

The suggestion had been that those hometown gigs on the tenth anniversary of their first album ‘Well Well Well‘ would be it for the band’s comeback, but there’s now a complete tour scheduled to open on September 19th at Portsmouth’s Wedgewood Rooms and continue on to a stop at the Manchester Ritz on the 30th.

Radiohead have gone straight in at number one on the UK Album Chart with ‘A Moon Shaped Pool‘.

Skepta, Gregory Porter and Jean Michel Jarre are more Top 5 new entries, while another rush-released LP, James Blake‘s ‘The Colour In Anything‘, is new at #13.

Morrissey is encouraging Smiths fans to get the ‘Queen Is Dead‘ title-track back into the charts at the end of this month to mark the classic album’s 30th anniversary.

In a post on fansite True To You, the band’s former singer has claimed negotiations with both Warner in the UK and Sire in the US to mark the occasion with a special re-release have hit a ‘brick wall’, and therefore he’s urging followers to go straight to source during the final week of May in a bid to get the song into the charts regardless.

Chvrches have given up a brand new song to the Mirror’s Edge Catalyst video game.

Iain Cook believes ‘Warning Call’ fits perfectly with the setting of the game – he’s said: “The sound of Chvrches’ music resonates with the minimalist sci-fi dystopia of the ‘Mirror’s Edge’ world, and we feel that the song complements the drama, emotion and empowering themes of Faith’s story.”

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